‘Well thank you kind sir I thought I’d make an effort for the visit of an old friend. So you do get invitations to visit young ladies Bill, just n...t every day’? ‘Ha ha, now don’t take me literally Beth’. ‘How would you like me to take you Bill’? (A game of verbal tennis with sexual undertones was clearly now underway … who would come out on top I wondered?). ‘Is that a double entendre Beth’? ‘I’m not that sort of girl Bill’. ‘Aside from being gorgeous what sort of girl are you then Beth’?. It had been a long day and shewanted to relax a little. Putting the laptop on the table and getting itturned on, she once again connected to the internet thru the ship's wifi connection.There she found a message from Peter. He wanted to know if she knewexactly when the ship would return to the port. He once again said thathe wanted to be the one to pick her up.In her reply, Ken said that she wasn't sure about their arrival time butthat she had some wonderful news for him. She had gotten in. Frost had fallen in the night and she was chilled to the bone. Her eyes adjusted to the new found light as it struck her face with shear brilliance. The only thing she remembered was a face, its menacing grin, its pale gray eyes, its crooked nose. Then, it hit her, like a freight train it nailed her. She had met this nice officer from the occupying nation, he was charming, he could have swayed her to support them. She had talked to him for hours on end in the bar she worked in. He offered to. I was able to quiet her down before any of the Redsticks noticed that anything unusual was going on.I put her arm over my shoulder and half carried her back away from the remaining Creeks. Once we were far enough away, I told her to hide in the bushes and to wait for us to return to help her. I promised that we would be gone no longer that an hour. I said that we had to let the Indians see us and start chasing us so that we could lead them away from her. She insisted that she understood what I.